Category: Pets and Animals
I was at Whole Foods earlier, buying dinner for tonight and lunch for tomorrow, on account of I decided I’m going to eat healthy for a while, and they had this blueberry cornbread. I bought it. I mean, cornbread with blueberries in? I never even heard of such a thing.
I just finished watching Rome. The whole series. It’s wholly worthy. It was co-created by John Milius, the he-man behind he-man flicks such as Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn, and the coiner of such lines as “make my day,” “do you feel lucky,” and “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” It couldn’t help but be good. It’s all stylish sex and violence, which is fitting, because the Romans were very much about sex and violence. And slavery. There’s rather a lot here of historical interest, as well, and the performances, largely by British actors, as this is a co-production with the BBC, are pitch-perfect. I don’t understand why it was so widely panned.
Work has been hella hectic lately. I rolled in at 9:45 today, ate a ten-minute lunch at my desk, and went back to work until 7:30. And it was firefighting the whole way.
I watched Jesus Camp last night. I don’t understand why everybody calls it all even-handed when it’s so clearly polemical. Still and all, though, it’s scary. These people? Scary. There’s this bit with Ted Haggard that is, in light of recent events, fucking hilarious. He comes off as kind of gay in it. It’s a decent documentary. If it’s Oscar-worthy, however, then it must have been a slow year for documentaries.
If you use Firefox (and you should), there’s this plugin you can get so that you can just hold down Alt and click on a word, and it’ll take you to the definition. I find it handy. I think I’m going to do a post that’s just about Firefox plugins.
If you read the Times, and you run Windows, you want to look into The Times Reader. It fits stories nicely on your page, in a multi-column layout (very nice for widescreen monitors) and has a good range of text sizes. It lets you print stories out 3-column style, which is very nice. It’s become my regular lunch time reading companion.
Fuck Valentine’s day.
It’s barley wine season. Sisyphus isn’t out yet, and neither is Old Gnarly Wine, but the 2007 Old Foghorn and Bigfoot brews can be found at any Central Market, Whip-in, Shop-n-Save, Whole Foods, or Sun Harvest near you. Central Market south and the HEB on Brodie also have Sierra Nevada IPA, not often seen in a bottle. It’s a very hoppy beer, but not nearly as hoppy as Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA, although at 20% alcolhol, it gets a little harder to sort out the flavors.
I wish I had two dicks.
